Congratulations indeed.

Yes, PASS UK isn't well organised. I found out about by chance, having decided to search on the PASS website for anything in trhe UK.

Out of idle curiosity - is anybody else from the SSC clan attending the Manchester SQL Saturday http://www.sqlsaturday.com/418/eventhome.aspx?

GilaMonster (7/2/2015)

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Informal survey before I make a fool of myself in an article (again)

Do you get the feeling that IT people, especially ones at the top-end of the field, are...

DECLARE @where_clause VARCHAR(100);

DECLARE @CurCaptureDate DATETIME;

SET @CurCaptureDate = GETDATE();

SET @where_clause = '';

SET @where_clause = @where_clause + CHAR(10) + ' AND CD.CaptureDate = ''' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(25),@CurCaptureDate ) +''''

SELECT @where_clause

Look at the number...

Brandie Tarvin (6/29/2015)

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GAH. I am such a breakfast person. But this morning, no food. Fasting bloodwork test in 95 minutes.

Someone pass the internet cookies. They don't affect bloodwork, right?

Bleargh. Feed...

Professor of Lego, anyone?

http://www.iflscience.com/environment/university-cambridge-recruiting-professor-lego

GilaMonster (6/23/2015)

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WayneS (6/23/2015)

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Brandie Tarvin (6/23/2015)

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So I know it's dirty pool to promote one's own blog on the forums, but in this case, I absolutely MUST show off.

Click it and you'll...

For those that have an interest in martial arts - specifically the Katana.

An intersting video of Machii Isao, assisting in the configuration of an industrial robot, so it can demonstarte...

Thanks Gail, it will be a day or two before I have it written up.

Back in February Paul Randal decided it would be interesting to mentor 54 people at the same time. Like he doesn't have enough to do. http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/mentoring-class-2015/

One of those individuals was...

ramana3327 (5/17/2015)

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Hi,

We have installed 2014 sql server. We have currently 2008r2. We have to run the real time report. So we need to set up transactional replication b/n those two...

Yes, although you may have to play with the format file, depending upon the differences.

Have a look at this article on using the format file - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/BCP+(Bulk+Copy+Program)/105867/

It took me a few seconds to understand that one...

SELECT LEFT(DATENAME(MONTH,GETDATE()),3) + ' ' + RIGHT('00' + CAST(YEAR(GETDATE()) AS VARCHAR),2)